python requests: how to check for “200 OK”

Question

What is the easiest way to check whether the response received from a requests post was \"200 OK\" or an error has occurred?

I tried doing something like this:

Answer 1

According to the docs, there's a status_code property on the response-object. So you can do the following:

if resp.status_code == 200:
    print ('OK!')
else:
    print ('Boo!')

EDIT:

As others have pointed out, a simpler check would be

if resp.ok:
    print ('OK!')
else:
    print ('Boo!')

if you want to consider all 2xx response codes and not 200 explicitly. You may also want to check Peter's answer for a more python-like way to do this.